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Back in 2010, Bitcoin was basically Monopoly money-literally worth a few cents. Fast forward a year, it’s hitting $20. Six years later? A cool $17,000. Today? Over $100K, darling, after smashing a record of $123K in July. Yep, it’s the financial version of Netflix’s “Are you still watching?”
Active users? It’s all about wallet addresses. Don’t ask me, that’s the metric.
Enter stage left: the venerable Peter Brandt, a trader of legendary renown and a connoisseur of weekly charts, who casts a sardonic eye upon MSTR’s noble ascent and decay. He poses a most existential query, stripped of the usual hand-waving: has the stock crowned its final summit, or merely paused to catch its breath (and perhaps a faint whiff of optimism) before another climb?
The X platform’s denizens, ever the vigilant sentinels of truth, observed that this remark underscored growing concerns around authenticity, moderation, and detection of LLM-driven activity on social media. Critics pointed out that Elon Musk, that modern-day alchemist, appeared determined to eliminate AI bots when he took over Twitter, but the issue remains unresolved and may have worsened since, leading platforms and researchers to call for improved transparency and tools to distinguish human from AI-operated accounts. A quest as futile as chasing a shadow in a disco. 🕺👻
Then came the whale, a real leviathan. Twenty-five thousand AAVE, nearly eight million dollars, pulled from the exchanges. And over the week? A hundred and sixty-seven thousand AAVE, a heap of fifty-three-and-a-half million, gone from the markets. It’s like watchin’ water flowin’ out of a dam. Makes a man wonder what they know. 🤔
Naturally, this sparked a digital dust-up. You had the usual suspects-traders, analysts, people who spend way too much time thinking about digital tokens-all piling on. They pointed out, quite reasonably, that XRP is still a top-three player in market cap. Which is basically crypto for “it has a lot of money attached to it, so maybe leave it alone?” Apparently, logic doesn’t always prevail when you’re dealing with digital bragging rights.
Once tied to the backstage of early payouts from the DeepBit mining pool-imagine, mining while everyone still thought Bitcoin was just a fancy joke-this old wallet got its first coins when Bitcoin was trading around $109 each. Fast forward to today, and those humble digits have become a mind-boggling $112,000 per Bitcoin. The result? An eye-popping gain of approximately 102,706%, enough to make even the most hardened hodler spit out his coffee in disbelief. ☕️🚀
On-chain data, that sly narrator of secrets, hints at a September twist: Bitcoin whales, those leviathans of liquidity, have swapped their waltz for a brisk shuffle. One wonders if they’re fleeing a ghost or hunting one.
a thrilling second reading is due in the coming months – popcorn recommended.
Seven hundred million, they boast! A mere pittance in the grand scheme of human suffering, yet enough to warrant a press release, naturally. Issued by a New York trust, oh, the legitimacy! Regulated by the NYDFS… as if regulation guarantees anything beyond the illusion of control. Compliance, they whisper, as if that’s a virtue, rather than a cage. It lends it “credibility,” they say…but credibility in what? In the endless pursuit of profit? 🤨
